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The most important thing is recovery, we cannot train in a way that we can learn something to help us to win the game on Saturday."We have to focus completely on recovery. That’s why we train later on Thursday morning, we report later today."Hopefully they have two days with eight to nine hours of sleep.
Then we go into a hotel tonight to make sure we don’t have to go that early tomorrow, so they have proper sleep."We try to do that in the best possible way. Yesterday we had a meeting about why we played well, what we have to do and also telling them how important recovery is.
Today we will probably be 15-20 minutes on the pitch."And then of course meetings have to do the job. The good thing is we’ve had eight or nine months together, it is not like I have to teach them something today and if I do not we cannot play a game of football."We know our style, we know what to expect.
